I have 7 VMs running on 2 Hyper-v Hosts. I am currently backing them up using a variety of methods listed below. I am looking for a consensus of wither I a wasting my time with the way I am backing things up? Too many copies, too many steps etc. -- I am looking for simplification not for a new piece of software. This is just to bounce the logic off the forum

I am backing up the individual VMs to a separate vhd that is mounted on that VM using Windows Server Backup

I am backing all the vhd's, and xml files to a NAS box using Hyperoo. (including the vhd that is the backup of the VM)

I am using the NAS box native backup to then copy the folders on the NAS box to an external drive each night for "offsite" and Friday's disks are carried off site for storage for a few weeks.

My comment on the process - shouting is not needed. That can be eliminated and will simplify things.

Should you do step one? Probably not necessary. Honestly, you probably shouldn't be doing any of those steps that way. Convert to using Hyperoo cloud (not NEW software per se) or use Network Edition to enable moving that NAS to a remote location, and you can be done with the external HDD... which is probably spinning disk and therefore not very reliable at all.

1.) I would only do this if you are running an application that Hyperoo cannot effective restore.

2.) I would copy both if you NEED the windows server backup.. If you don't need to use Windows server backup for any reason, then skip step 1 and just backup using Hyperoo (assuming you trust it and verify your backups)

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